Sounding-wheel toy.



A. CAFFERTY.

SOUNDING WHEEL TOY.

APPLICATION PILED JUL: 12,1913.

1,103,030. Patented July 14,1914,

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Specification'of- Letters Patent. Application filed July 12, 1913. Serial No. 778,722.

Patented July 14, 1914.

T all whom it may concern;

Be it knownthat I, ANTHONY CAE'FERTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mahanoy City, in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Soundin -Wheel.Toy; and I do hereby declare the fo lowing to be a full,

i ful improved sounding wheel toy.

An object of the-invention is to provide a toy of this nature for amusing children, and

that can be placed upon the market at a comparatively small. cost so as. to bring it within thereach of the families of moderate means. 1

One of the features of the invention is the provision of a handle having a forked end, in the forks of which a wheel is journaled provided witha cog wheel on each side, the

cog teeth of one wheel .being in staggered.

relation with the 00 wheel of-the opposite wheel, so as to produce double sounds, by virtue of the paddles which engage the teeth. I

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed. In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a view in 1 perspective of theimproved sounding wheel toy constructed in'accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is, a sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4

" is a-detail view of the handle member.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates a handle member recessed at one end as shown in Fig. 4 forming a single fork 2, while 3 denotes a plate secured-to the handle at 4, constituting another fork 5. A wheelfi which maybe any suitable structure is provided having cog wheels 7 and 8, one upon each side. The teeth of the cog wheel.7 are arranged in staggered relation with the cog teeth of the cog 8, so as to produce double sounds, owing to the paddles 9 contacting with the teeth. Projecting from the cog w eels are pins 10, which are journaled in suitable bearings of the forks 2 and 5. The paddles or blades 9 are con'structedwith an enlargement ..1l,

which .are secured in recesses 12 by the bolts 13. r

It will be seen that as the wheel 6 rolls upon the: ground, pavement or other surface, the cog wheels are likewise rotated, and as rotated the paddles or blades flip fromone tobth' to another, thereby creating several s0unds.-

The enlargements 11 of the blades "are.

provided with slots, through which the bolts '13 extend, these slots affording means for permitting the blades to be adjusted toward and from the co wheels, sethat one blade may create sounds less in volume than the sounds of the opposite blade and vice versa'. The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is 1. In a sounding wheel toy, a handle memher having a recess at one end upon one side and including a single fork on the opposite side of the same end, a plate secured in said recess constitutin a second fork opposite the first fork, said handle member adjacent said forks'having spaced recesses, a pair of blades havingenlargements provided with slots arranged in said spaced recesses, a wheel located between the two blades and provided with oppositely arranged cog wheels, one upon each side adapted to be engaged by the blade to create sound as. the cogs revolve with the wheel, pintles carried by the cog wheels mounted in bearings of the extremities of said fork, and means ex-. tendin ment or adjustably securing said enlargements and blades 1n adjusted positions,in order. that the sound ofwo'ne blade 6r the other may be increased or decreased. I

2. In a sounding wheel toy, a handle memher having a recess at one end including 'an, adjoining single fork, a plate secured to the handle member with a portion constituting a second fork opposite the first fork, said through the slots of the enlarge- 5 handle memberadjacent said forks having wheel located between the two blades. and,

provided with oppositel arranged cog wheels, one upon.each si e adapted to be engaged by the blades, the teeth of one cog wheel being arrangedin staggered relationswith the teeth of the opposite cog In testimony whereof I have signed my Wheel so as to produce double sounds, and. nameto this specification in the presence of Eintles carried by the cog wheels mounted in two subscribing witnesses;

, earings of theextremlties of said forks, ANTHONY GAFFERTY.

5 and means whereby one or the other of said Witnesses: I

blades may be adjusted, in order to increase ANDREW KOENIG,

or decrease the sounds. PATRICK OBRIEN. 

